At SUNY College at Cortland we have been putting adhesive colored dots on our
periodicals at the time of reshelving for 23 years.  Every two years we change
the color. After ten dots the student reshelvers are supposed to stop adding
more of any one color. The dots have been counted and analyzed to provide
bibliographers with use data which is invaluable when making cutbacks.

Johanna Bowen, Serials Librarian
SUNY College at Cortland
Cortland NY 13045
bitnet:   bowen@snycorva
internet: bowen@snycorva.cortland.edu
phone:    607-753-2970   Fax:    607-753-5669